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Puncture   /pˈəŋktʃər/  /pˈəŋkʃər/   Listen
Puncture

noun
1.
Loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object.
2.
A small hole made by a sharp object.
3.
The act of puncturing or perforating.
verb
(past & past part. punctured; pres. part. puncturing)
1.
Pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into.
2.
Make by piercing.
3.
Reduce or lessen the size or importance of.  Synonym: deflate.
4.
Cause to lose air pressure or collapse by piercing.
5.
Be pierced or punctured.



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"Puncture" Quotes from Famous Books



... sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm. Here is a nut," said he, catching one down from an upper bough, "to exemplify: a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot anywhere. This nut," he continued, with playful solemnity, "while so many of his brethren have fallen and been trodden under foot, is still in possession of all the happiness that a hazel nut can be supposed capable of." Then returning to his former ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
... old-fashioned satire has disappeared because the game is no longer considered worth the candle. To puncture the tire of pretence is amusing enough; but it is useless to stick tacks under the steam road-roller: the road-roller advances remorselessly and smooths down your mischievous little tacks and you too, indifferently. ...
— The American Mind - The E. T. Earl Lectures • Bliss Perry
... overcome by means of the use of medicines alone, when the operation of tapping the chest is performed to allow an escape for the accumulated fluid. The operation is performed with a combined instrument called the trocar and cannula. The puncture is made in the lower part of the chest, in the space between the eighth and ninth ribs. Wounding of the intercostal artery is avoided by inserting the instrument as near as possible to the anterior edge of the rib. If the operation is of benefit, ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture
... clutched his side—there came across his disfigured features a queer twisted smile—he sighed softly and slowly sank in a crumpled heap. A clean little puncture in the breast of his coat told the whole story. Patsy felt ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross • Edith Van Dyne
... Senior Surgeon stared unheeding into the whizzing black road. Pulses and temperatures and blood-pressures were seething in his mind; and sharp sticks and jagged stones and the general possibilities of a puncture; and murmurs of the heart and rles of the lungs; and a most unaccountable knock-knock-knocking in the engine; and the probable relation of middle-ear disease; and the perfectly positive symptoms of optic neuritis; and a damned funny squeak in ...
— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


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